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France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
— Thomas Sowell
How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?
— Thomas Sowell
History is the memory of a nation
— Thomas Sowell
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
— Thomas Sowell
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
— Thomas Sowell
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
— Thomas Sowell
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
— Thomas Sowell
The real minimum wage is zero.
— Thomas Sowell
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
— Thomas Sowell
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
— Thomas Sowell
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
— Thomas Sowell
If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
— Thomas Sowell
Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?
— Thomas Sowell
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
— Thomas Sowell
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.
— Thomas Sowell
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian. — Thomas Sowell
You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.
— Thomas Sowell
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
— Thomas Sowell
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
— Thomas Sowell
Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
— Thomas Sowell
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
— Thomas Sowell
There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.
— Thomas Sowell
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
— Thomas Sowell
Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.
— Thomas Sowell
High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.
— Thomas Sowell
People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.
— Thomas Sowell
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
— Thomas Sowell
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don't.
— Thomas Sowell
If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
— Thomas Sowell
Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
— Thomas Sowell
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
— Thomas Sowell
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
— Thomas Sowell
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
— Thomas Sowell
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
— Thomas Sowell
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
— Thomas Sowell
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
— Thomas Sowell
To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.
— Thomas Sowell
What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
— Thomas Sowell
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
— Thomas Sowell
Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.
— Thomas Sowell
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
— Thomas Sowell
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
— Thomas Sowell
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
— Thomas Sowell
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
— Thomas Sowell
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
— Thomas Sowell
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
— Thomas Sowell
